> Don't let them know
> Well now they know
>
-> —"Let It Go" from _Frozen_
+> —"Let It Go", _Frozen_
> I cannot believe my eyes
> How the world's filled with filth and lies
>
> —_Portal_ end credits song
-(Yes, the Only Real...)
+(Review of Nevada)
> You sound so innocent
> All full of good intent
> You swear you know best
>
> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
+(Yes, the Only Real ...)
> I'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly be the first time I've found myself in the vulnerable position of sharing the brain-damaged prophet's impairment, down to the last neuron.
>
> —_Quarantine_ by Greg Egan
+
+> And there's a fine, fine line
+> Between what you wanted
+> And what you got
+> You've got to go after the things you want
+> While you're still in your prime
+>
+> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
+
+> Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
+> Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
+> Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
+> Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
+>
+> Well, they can't be grandfathers
+> Or daddies
+>
+> —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_
+
+> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
+> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
+>
+> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
+
+(on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women)
+> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
+>
+> —Stan Kelly-Bootle
+
+(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
+> Because it's going to be the future soon
+> And I won't always be this way
+> When the things that make me weak and strange
+> Get engineered away
+>
+> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
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